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To celebrate Festival Fortnight in 2022, Kirkcaldy High School are working in partnership with Fife Active Schools, neighbouring secondary schools & local LGBT+ Youth Groups to offer LGBTQI+ young people & allies the opportunity to take part in informal sports taster sessions (i.e. Basketball, Boxing, Trampolining & Yoga) and a swimming session at the Michael Woods Sports Centre in Glenrothes on Friday 24th June.

Discover some of Glasgow’s beautiful murals and grassroots art work with OUT on Sunday’s street art walk, while clocking up your steps and stretching your fitness goals. 20 spaces available! OUT on Sundays is a weekly inter-generational, free, walking group, hosting a variety of different walks aiming to improve wellbeing and help our community meet new people and see the city around them.

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Dundee Frontrunners are looking for new LGBT+ runners to join our social running club. We’re a social group, and have members of all abilities, whether they prefer to run-walk-run, or participate in marathons – the focus of our group is social running. We invite you to join us for a social evening on the water, so you can get to know other runners.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Already a participant or actively considering taking up a sport? Come out to InclusionSPORT to hear from LGBT+ sportspeople and governing bodies speaking about what it means to be LGBT+ in the sports arena. We’ll talk experiences and explore ways how can sport be more inclusive. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in a local event featuring one of the panelists. Open to all.

This event has been postponed – contact the event organisers directly for further information

Join Edinburgh Frontrunners for a relaxed, sociable, Saturday morning run at whatever pace or distance works for you. We have 4k, 6k, 8k, 10k routes with trained JogLeader support, and we go for brunch afterwards. Open to all genders aged 18+.

***THESE EVENTS ARE NOW FULL*** If you wish to be placed on a waiting list, please contact membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk

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This event has been postponed – contact the event organisers directly for further information

Glow group trip to Willowgate Activity Centre – We will be taking eight young people from the group to the Willowgate Activity Centre for 2.5 hours of outward bounds fun! Open to members of the LGBT Youth Scotland group Glow group in Perth (if you are aged 13 – 25 and interested in joining the group please visit our website for more information https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/). This is a closed event for LGBT Youth Scotland Glow group.

This walk will highlight a number of different sports and all you have to do is to mark it off on your special sports bingo card! Get a house on your card and you could win yourself a prize! 8 spaces available. OUT on Sundays is a weekly inter-generational, free, walking group, hosting a variety of different walks aiming to improve wellbeing and help our community meet new people and see the city around them. Open to all!

Join Lothian Roller Derby at 1pm on Saturday 18th June for a relaxed roll along the prom for Porty Pride! Meet our friendly skaters at Joppa Bandstand with your wheels of choice and roll with us to the other end of the promenade (Kings Rd) in celebration of the first ever Porty Pride! All ages, identities, and wheely-vehicles welcome!

This event has been postponed – contact the event organisers directly for further information

The sun is shining (hopefully!) so its beach yoga time here in Nairn, join us for a class suitable for beginners. We will be hosting a catch up after class with some cake and light refreshments. You’re welcome to bring your swimsuit if you wish for a dip afterwards!

Have you ever thought a leisurely walk needs frequent coffee and cake stops? Today is your lucky day! This 20km gentle stroll around Loch Leven will pass three coffee and cake stops.

Learn how to roller skate with Inverness City Roller Derby! These taster sessions are aimed at beginners and completely free. Limited kit available so sign up to reserve your place. Open to all genders aged 18+.

Fun and inclusive volleyball event for gender diverse children aged 6-12 and their families (siblings, parents, carers, guardians, other family members). Snacks will be provided.

Join Felicity Halfpenny from Musical Theatre Fitness for a special Pride edition of their Dance It Out Class. Felicity Halfpenny is a Choreographer, Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer who loves to combine her passions for fitness, musical theatre and teaching into one.

Learn how to roller skate with Inverness City Roller Derby! These taster sessions are aimed at beginners and completely free. Limited kit available so sign up to reserve your place. Open to all genders aged 18+.

Glasgow West FC is an LGBTIQ+ friendly football team open to women and non-binary people aged 16+. We are mixed ability so if you’ve never played football before, or you’re looking to get back into it after some time off, this is the team for you!

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Together with LEAP Sports Scotland, Four Pillars are hosting a ten-pin bowling tournament to bring together the LGBT+ community and celebrate Festival Fortnight. The tournament will take place over a few hours and top performances will be acknowledged.

Get Back OUT Glasgow is teaming up with House Ball Scotland during Festival Fortnight to deliver a ballroom herstory & voguing taster session!

R-CADE is hosting an evening for members of the LGBTIQ+ community and allies to gather and play some of the very best retro sports video games without judgement or prejudice. Gamers of all ages can book a pass for our special event and play some of the best retro sports games together.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Running every Monday in June!

Rediscover the city and yourself with this free Introduction to Parkour Workshop for LGBTIQ+ adults as part of LEAP Festival Fortnight. Qualified coaches from Access Parkour will empower you to move safely and confidently through your environment in new ways and with fresh eyes.

Papa Johns Tartan Touch is Scottish Rugby’s Fun, Simple and Social version of non-contact rugby. This year Musselburgh RFC are running their sessions for the very first time!

Join Glenearn Badminton Club for a taster session. Free to all participants and equipment provided. Open to all aged 18+. Sign up to secure you place.

Glasgow Pride Community Football is an LGBTIQ+ friendly, financially and socially inclusive football club open to women and non-binary adults aged 18+.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Join the Perth Parrots for a floorball taster session. All equipment provided and the session is completely free. Its a great way to stay fit and meet new people. Open to all aged 18+. 30 places available.

Come and play Tartan Touch with Dundee’s fastest growing Rugby Club! Tartan Touch is for everyone. Come and have a go in a supportive and inclusive club. No rugby experience? Don’t worry, Tartan Touch has no tackling and has a simplified set of rules, so it’s a great event to start with! Open to all ages and genders.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Are you looking to try a new sport? Do you want to meet a new group of people and have a safe space to socialise while learning a new skill? In conjunction with LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight, Glasgow Raptors RFC is proud to present our FREE 6 week ‘Intro to Rugby Bootcamp’.

Played football before and want to get back into it? Never played but always wanted to? Or do you just fancy a kick about and making pals in a fun and welcoming team? If so, Glasgow Saints FC is for you! Open to women and non-binary folks aged 18+, we are a mixed ability, gender and lgbtq+ inclusive team, all about having fun as well as playing football.

Yoga workout for all abilities with a guided meditation through each of the seven chakras. There will be ambient lighting and healthy snacks provided for afterwards.

The Renaissance Martial Arts Society offers an exciting chance to learn how to swordfight like historical knights. Whether you’re interested in the academic context of the weapons, the martial arts training, or just having fun and getting to hit your friends with swords then RMAS can give you the unique opportunity to try it out.

Join Edinburgh Frontrunners for a relaxed, sociable, Saturday morning run at whatever pace or distance works for you. We have 4k, 6k, 8k, 10k routes with trained JogLeader support, and we go for brunch afterwards. Open to all genders aged 18+.

Football for fun! Cathkin Blazes is a friendly, beginner-friendly (free) group in the Southside of Glasgow. Gender inclusive and no minimum fitness level. Join us :)

Fluid Fridays is a donation led weekly inclusive fitness and wellbeing service open to all. Any money raised will go towards local charities and securing a stand-a-long fully accessible queer community-led gym space in Glasgow.

Have you found it hard to find the motivation to get outside recently? Why not explore your local area and share what you have found with us by joining us for our Pride and Pixels Scavenger Hunt as part of Festival fortnight.

Bike for Good is organising an LGBTQI+ bike maintenance class. This class aims to provide a space where LGBTQI+ people are made to feel welcome in the workshop, and feel confident to learn and ask questions. We recognise that LGBTQI+ people are underrepresented in bike mechanics due to the cis-heteropatriarchy and we aim for these sessions to help empower LGBTQI+ people to learn about bikes and how to fix them, and to teach others. Open to all LGBTIQ+ people (under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult. 8 spaces available.

***THESE EVENTS ARE NOW FULL*** If you wish to be placed on a waiting list, please contact membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk

Glasgow frontrunners is an LGBT+ running club open to all over 18. We have sessions three times per week. All our runs are led by qualified Scottish athletics jog leaders .

Are you looking to try a new sport? Do you want to meet a new group of people and have a safe space to socialise while learning a new skill? In conjunction with LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight, Glasgow Raptors RFC is proud to present our FREE 6 week ‘Intro to Rugby Bootcamp’.

Come and join Pride Outside for a night of inspiring LGBTQI+ adventures, leave feeling inspired to go on your own adventure.

Join the Rainbow Glasgaroos for a free basketball taster session. The session is completely free and all equipment will be provided. We will do a warm up together, run some practice drills and then play some friendly games. We look forward to seeing you there!

Come and Try badminton session with a friendly and welcoming group of LGBTQI+ players. We play at an intermediate level generally and are looking for new longer term players. Open to all aged 18+ regardless of gender. 30 spaces available.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

The ‘House of Evangeleasties’ (or Easties for short) is an LGBT Youth Scotland youth group based in Kirkintilloch. We are inviting members of the LGBTI+ community in East Dunbartonshire aged 13-25 to come and join us at the Park Centre in Kirky for our first ever Roller Disco!

Whether you’ve been to ceilidh dances all your life or you’ve never been to one before, this is the event for you! We are organising an evening of ceilidh dancing for the members of our Get Back OUT and Trans Active groups, but we are also opening the event to the wider LGBTIQ+ community and allies.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Come and enjoy an Indigo Waves Sound Bath experience with Lindsay at the Highland Yoga Collective, Yoga Studio and benefit from meditational and vibrational therapy. Experience the deeply relaxing vibrations and gentle harmonising pure tones of the Crystal Bowls.

Edinburgh Pride Run is back! Join us in the Meadows on the evening before Pride for an inclusive 5k race full of colour and flags and cakes, on our flat, wheel-friendly course. Women/men/non-binary entries, £12 (or £10 for SA members). Join us for our ceilidh at the Charteris Centre afterwards for £10 including food! Open to all genders aged 18+.

Experience the work of Charles Rennie MacKintosh while stretching your legs in a 10K walk. Never fear if you have never walked that far before, there are many stops along the way for either a rest or putting a pause on the journey for you to pick up on another day. Open to all! OUT on Sundays is a weekly inter-generational, free, walking group, hosting a variety of different walks aiming to improve wellbeing and help our community meet new people and see the city around them.

***THESE EVENTS ARE NOW FULL*** If you wish to be placed on a waiting list, please contact membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk

Join some of the Happy Wee Health Club for this special family edition of Born To Move.

Join Perth Petanque Club as it hosts an fun and informal Petanque Tournament to mark Festival Fortnight 2022. No experience necessary and all equipment provided. The club will also be providing a BBQ as part of the club celebration. Free to enter and open to all.

Get all the family together and join us for a fabulous Silent Disco with a selection of fabulous tunes that the whole family will enjoy, choice 1 of 3 channels to dance away to or switch between channels to have a fabulous mix of all the music.

Join Rainbow Glasgaroos for a screening of the Hoop Dreams (1994) documentary and a panel discussion. Hoop Dreams follows the lives of two African-American teenagers from Chicago who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional. In the essay by the seminar author, activist and feminist Bell Hooks, encourages us to take a critical view of the highly praised documentary. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A about the documentary.

Join Perth Parrots for a hot beverage and breakfast roll before we climb Kinnoull Hill for a social activity and morning stroll. The guided walk is suitable for novice walkers with reasonable fitness levels. The session will take approximately 3hrs to complete and offers fantastic views from the top. While quality banter is hoped, it can’t be guaranteed. Open to all – no age or gender restrictions. #JoinThePandemonium

We’re a friendly community fencing club that already has great representation from the LGBTIQ+ community. Fencing is a great sport where everyone can get involved together with none of the common barriers in sport that are put up between ages, genders and ability levels, everyone gets stuck in and has a great time together.

Come along for our festival fortnight event where we will be playing some Crazy Golf and taking a stroll along the beach :)

Join some of the Happy Wee Health Club for this special family edition of Born To Move.

‘1 Tonne Challenge’ with Uplifted. We are opening our doors to the LGBTQIA+ community, their family, friends and allies to take part in our ’1 Tonne Challenge’ as part of Leap Sports Festival Fortnight.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Who doesn’t love football Sundays?! Register your team between 7-11 players to take part in our 7-aside tournament on Sunday 26th June. You don’t have to have any football experience to take part! We have 2 groups – beginner and intermediate.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Running every Monday in June!

Papa Johns Tartan Touch is Scottish Rugby’s Fun, Simple and Social version of non-contact rugby. This year Musselburgh RFC are running their sessions for the very first time!

Glasgow Pride Community Football is an LGBTIQ+ friendly, financially and socially inclusive football club open to women and non-binary adults aged 18+.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Played football before and want to get back into it? Never played but always wanted to? Or do you just fancy a kick about and making pals in a fun and welcoming team? If so, Glasgow Saints FC is for you! Open to women and non-binary folks aged 18+, we are a mixed ability, gender and lgbtq+ inclusive team, all about having fun as well as playing football.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!

Are you looking to try a new sport? Do you want to meet a new group of people and have a safe space to socialise while learning a new skill? In conjunction with LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight, Glasgow Raptors RFC is proud to present our FREE 6 week ‘Intro to Rugby Bootcamp’.

5k-ish walk around a beautiful open park in Giffnock, beginning at the space of ground between the kids play park and the skate park walk take the time to enjoy a lovely walk around Rouken Glen, head to the boating pond or the Waterfall and come back and join us for a bite to eat and time to talk. Our picnic will be ready with vegan and vegetarian options at the end of the walk for everyone attending, regardless of the length walked. The route is very accessible, safe and open for anyone who would like to take part.

The Renaissance Martial Arts Society offers an exciting chance to learn how to swordfight like historical knights. Whether you’re interested in the academic context of the weapons, the martial arts training, or just having fun and getting to hit your friends with swords then RMAS can give you the unique opportunity to try it out.

Join Edinburgh Frontrunners for a relaxed, sociable, Saturday morning run at whatever pace or distance works for you. We have 4k, 6k, 8k, 10k routes with trained JogLeader support, and we go for brunch afterwards. Open to all genders aged 18+.

An inaugural 5K and 10K run along Aberdeen Beach Esplanade, promoted and organised by Aberdeen’s newest LGBTQI+ running group. The Rainbow Run race is to encourage new runners to find out more about running and the club, with the aim of encouraging Scots into a more active lifestyle, in a welcoming social environment.

Football for fun! Cathkin Blazes is a friendly, beginner-friendly (free) group in the Southside of Glasgow. Gender inclusive and no minimum fitness level. Join us :)

Fluid Fridays is a donation led weekly inclusive fitness and wellbeing service open to all. Any money raised will go towards local charities and securing a stand-a-long fully accessible queer community-led gym space in Glasgow.

Bike for Good is organising a Queer Bike Tour of South, East and Central Glasgow incorporating current and past LGBTQI+ landmarks, sports venues and discussion of LGBT issues in sport.

***THESE EVENTS ARE NOW FULL*** If you wish to be placed on a waiting list, please contact membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk

Join the Rainbow Glasgaroos for a free basketball taster session. The session is completely free and all equipment will be provided. We will do a warm up together, run some practice drills and then play some friendly games. We look forward to seeing you there!

Are you looking to try a new sport? Do you want to meet a new group of people and have a safe space to socialise while learning a new skill? In conjunction with LEAP Sports Festival Fortnight, Glasgow Raptors RFC is proud to present our FREE 6 week ‘Intro to Rugby Bootcamp’.

Come and Try badminton session with a friendly and welcoming group of LGBTQI+ players. We play at an intermediate level generally and are looking for new longer term players. Open to all aged 18+, regardless of gender. 30 spaces available.

Ever wanted to try parkour? Learn how to handstand? Get strong with some conditioning? Or just look after your body in our Back in the Game class? You’re in luck!